skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> the UX is horrid

No. Car UX is fine by me. I turn the key or press the button that says "start" and the car starts. Each button does what it should on a single press. Wipers, tail lights, headlights indicator lights, brake, pedal, accelerator, everything works as it should. It is an example of good ux that my phone, my desktop , laptop and my server should copy. But they can't because they serve different functions. So just let it be.

> software never gets updated

Thank God for it. I never have to wait for my car to start because it is waiting for updates to be installed like my laptop does. There is no last update that needs patching for the speedometer to show me the speed. There's no bug that causes security concerns for me.

Seriously removing ICE hardware and replacing it with simpler electric hardware was a great move. Lets not screw it up with adding more software into it. Except self driving.
The article does make some goid points, but the grammar part was bizarre.
Collapse by 2030 is entirely possible under unsurprising circumstances. I rate it as near 50% likelihood, increasing rapidly after:

As climate disruption increases, crop failures in tropical and subtropical countries result in mass migration, first to cities and then toward wealthy temperate countries.

Temperate countries react by electing fascist governments to repel refugees. Fascist governments start wars (as they do), which spiral and disrupt international trade. Trade failure triggers economic crises, which exacerbate wars, ultimately leading to nuclear weapons exchange, and collapse.

Reason to believe: already starting, with no remedial action visible or planned.
What money did they give to wall street? How is wall street in the plus here?
Yea and Elon Musk made 170B. Meanwhile, the average HN user probably made somewhere around 200k. I made 1.3 million last year. I know it's not a lot because I know people several orders of magnitude richer than myself, but I also know that there are risks worth taking in life, and no one becomes Elon Musk, Ken Griffin, DeepFuckingValue or even myself by calmly working a desk job. You have to have balls to really succeed in life.

There's an argument to be made that it's not worth it, that you are happy enough with your low 6 figure existence, but the sentiment here clearly shows that's not the case. The sentiment here shows that people are not happy in their FANG and other engineering jobs, and they are in fact incredibly jealous of Musk, Griffin and the newly rich WSBers, and instead of admit that jealousy, they make up lies claiming that the WSBers aren't winning, when it's clear as day they are in this moment and big hedge funds are the losers.

I'm not saying WSB will continue to win, I think hedge funds will get their shit together and not get themselves into a GME-like position again in the near future. However, let's call a spade a spade while it lasts. DeepFuckingValue and his WSB brigade have scored a HUGE win, many becoming overnight multi-multi millionaires, and instead of bash them, why not celebrate them for a day.
Pretty easy to show damages. Their employees are getting death threats. People are calling for dominion equipment to be disallowed from future elections.
Ask HN: Solo founders, how do you overcome isolation?
Hi all, I've been working on my own for some years now on a saas business now generating around 5k/MRR.

I've enjoyed being able to work by myself in the past few years and didn't really feel the need of a co-founder or a pal in my team with whom to talk about the business you know (I have a couple of contractors on the team).

Since the pandemic hit, I've started feeling more and more isolated and I've realized how I'm actually needing someone to talk to on a daily basis about the struggle of the business, discuss ideas about the product and so on...

How do you go about finding someone like that in a moment like this?
If you haven't seen it, I'll give a shoutout to abscissa[0]. It's used in production by quite a few apps, basically had everything I was looking for, and demonstrated thought towards why dependencies they have chosen and what those dependencies transitively include.

[0]: https://github.com/iqlusioninc/abscissa
Computationally relevant information is sometimes embedded in runtime state (for example, yeast prions), but this is very rare. For small bacteria, you can switch out the entire genome with a new genome and have them continue living just fine. For all intents and purposes on an engineering level, everything is/can be encoded in DNA.
The droplet doesn't have to be dead centre. Basically you stare past the droplet and see the glint of light in it as a big blurry orb of light. That's the "spotlight", basically.. That's it. If you squint your eyes, and see relatively sharp shadows of your eyelashes impinging on the orb, it's working.
so complicated? its the same as i not going to buy iphone and lots of people like iphone?

"how much is it worth to you?" is an opinion, not a fact...
There are some plausible theories, like RNA randomly crystallizing on a suitable surface. Sooner or later a self-copying one just happened to crystallize by chance, and there was no going back. Fun lecture series: https://youtu.be/PqPGOhXoprU
SLURM hits a nice sweet spot when you have a very traditional cluster: very homogeneous nodes (both hardware and software), standard logins (eg some kind of LDAP/AD), shared NFS files, trusted code. It's an absolute pain when:

- Lots of different kinds of nodes

- anything more complex dependency wise than a handful of shared Conda envs

- anything involving docker

- anything vaguely untrusted

- any kind of partitioning worse than 3 nines e.g. connectivity or uptime instability

- anything more complex than 3-5 priority levels of scheduling

It's great if you hit that niche but it frankly struggles with the complexities of even moderately heterogeneous work loads.

It's also just a bit dated feeling. Even though kube is complex, it's a joy to work with compared to SLURM. Hashicorp is even better imho.
Dear Signal: please don’t moderate speech. You should never see my speech, or be in a position to enforce any content policy.

The same way USPS doesn’t go around opening letters and getting rid of whatever they don’t like.
sadness indeed
Such an epic pump and dump. Winners and losers. Prob no better time to short GME.
Memes. The answer is memes.

People are willing to spend money on their memes like they are for their genes
OK but this is not exactly risk-free. You are on the hook for the downside risk of whatever you own behind those calls. Selling covered calls comes with a lot of exposure.
You played a game, you played it well, and you won. Well done.

But don't pretend that that means everyone can do it, because patently they can't: you won your bets, a bunch of other people lost theirs. No value that wouldn't otherwise have been created got made, you just shifted the balance of how the rewards are distributed in your favor, and away from someone else.

As a system for distributing the benefits of economic production, allocating it to the winners of a complex iterated social game seems suboptimal. Like if we used 'Among Us' tournaments to distribute food.

But hey, glad it's working out for you.
It is! You should consider your brain as basically a database distant from the software, when you observe a race condition it's the same phenomenon as writing to a database (except you don't have a transactional system that gets activated by default).
Am I the only one who sees WSB and thinks, "yep, this is what trading floors would look like without compliance and HR"?
We weren't having issues solved by basic documentation.

In the most recent example, we were occasionally hitting Java heap OutOfMemory under our workloads and wanted tuning or even architectural advice. It turns out that ElasticSearch didn't limit ingestion rate to control memory pressure and was happy to accept writes under load until it exploded. Heavy users of ElasticSearch commonly have to watch ES memory pressure and throttle their own writes client-side.

I would've loved to hear these limitations from elastic.co, be offered some tips on appropriate techniques for throttling, or have them accept a feature request to better handle this server side. We never got anywhere near that level of depth of understanding our problem, after months of trying. It felt like we were talking to first-level support who didn't understand the product much better than we did.
I still enjoy Jurassic Park, but can't unsee a mental image of plucked, frozen supermarket chicken every time I look at the dinosaurs
> Before someone chimes in to say, "That's insane, why isn't it running an RTOS?"

I'm chiming in to say that Windows CE is an RTOS. [0]

[0] https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/previous-versions/windows/e...
> That's not the way lawyers use the term "on the merits"

I'm fully aware of how lawyers use the term, but that's immaterial to the import being given to the term in this discussion. To the extent that whether a case was decided “on the merits” is being used as a proxy for the argument that the probative value of the evidence actually in the Trump campaign’s hands in claims of election fraud has not been evaluated, it is only valid if you consider any decision (even of “procedural” rather than “on the merits” in traditional legal categorization) where, in fact, that evidence was weighed by a standard at least as favorable as it would be at trial and nevertheless found wanting.
It's just as dangerous as people who work for options that will never best in their favour.

Par for the course, really. Wait better because their main source of income might not be related to a gamble
The level of community and how close people are seemed unreal

All of that exists in Christian churches and their deep (but often quiet) influence over many social efforts and programs across the United States. Have you visited one recently?

Rally is also a pretty tight community as well, everyone is always there to help you press on regardless, whether its a tow out of a ditch on stage or lending a spare for a blown fuse in service.
I spent couple days after joining an Ad tech project, because I could not get a working local build.

I had already disabled adblocker at the time, and was even using other browsers. Turned out i also had DNS[0] ad blockers I forgot about.

This story always make me think the kinda of experience we are building for our own families and children online. sigh.

[0] https://someonewhocares.org/
If the sensors are that far in disagreement, its a sensor failure or something worse.
Not sure why you are downvoted, you made a lot of very valid points and I agree.

People get very comfortable very quickly, even tech savvy folks. Having to learn another language will scare many away, even though the effort might be the same - it's perceived harder.
I dumped signal less over the data collection they've started doing and more for the fact that they've been less than transparent about it. Nearly a year ago their forums were filled with objections, security concerns, and questions and for months they went ignored. When they finally made setting a pin optional they were equally unclear that it would just set a random one for you and that this didn't prevent your data from being uploaded to the cloud.

I took it as a sign that they were telling us not to trust them as clearly as they were allowed. For secure communications I'm using Jami now and I've been very impressed. For SMS/MMS in general I'm still looking. I've tried a few alternatives and frankly I'm not really happy with any of them.
It's not a product designed to support large numbers of web visitors, given its goals, your statement that it is trash shows that you might not understand what its creator was going for - it's quirky and weird, but it's very clear and adheres to the project’s intended goals.
First: I am not "my dude" to you (or to anyone).

Second: I misread your comment as saying that it was ridiculous for the judges to not rule on the merits. I agree with you that the (alleged) merits of the cases were ridiculous.
what about the wsb folks who were tricked into buying in at 150 today?
Would an alternative be to offer auto-generated usernames that you have one-shot to generate a password for and if you lose that password you're gone? Something like opposite-dwindling-zodiac, casino-smile-widget, or creative-crumpled-dismiss?

If you choose to add a phone number as a recovery (and for contact finding) that's your optional choice.
Small part of the picture is an exaggeration, IMO. Cellular electrical dynamics matter, but we already know that surface physics matter (see: any mammalian lab with those flat little red bottles). Those dynamics (physical, electrical, chemical) are all derived from genes coded in DNA, and so long as you have the basic ribosomes / mitochondrial structures, you can re-instantiate an entire organism from just the DNA.
Wait, not setting a pin still enables sync??
So if we are looking at this objectively. Zero minutes is far better than 10-15 minutes.

I've been an EV owner since 2016. I am yet to experience "waiting to charge" while commuting 20 miles to work and running errands. I park in our garage, plug in, and wake up to a full charge.

That's with being a 2 EV household with only one Tesla wall connector that is set to 30A (can support up to 100A).
All the short ones perished before the canals.
Sorry, dark humor, I’ll see myself out.
Umm, the article says Tesla may not be eligible to be in the fleet. Maybe she should have bought GM calls ?
>It's worst when governments demonize journalists and media. One youtube talk I watched listed that as a sure sign democracy is under attack in a country.

I don't understand your response to this. A democracy is the will of the people. In general it is not ok when politicians collude to marginalize or silence the free speech of the people they are supposed to represent. This is what totalitarian regimes do.

It would be better to talk to people and attempt to really understand them rather than demonize them.
> That view was mostly abandoned in the 70s-90s.

Come to think of it, most of my books about dinosaurs are probably from the 80s... :P

So the largest dinosaur bones were built more like trusses? That would make sense, I guess.
I strongly disagree with your take on that survey. For one, it only mentions switching, not removing something (like social media) from your life. I have not switched providers because I found one that was more private. I have deleted facebook.
Halt and Catch Fire is an excellent show. I wish Apple would make a similar show about the first Macintosh. There’s plenty of material on folklore.org for a good story.
Unfortunately this won’t lead to the outcome you desire unless there’s a real tangible reason you want your statements to be put in the category with higher standards. Because otherwise such a system will lead to everything being labeled as an opinion. The reach and impact will end up being the same and even people reporting facts will want to avoid the scrutiny and red tape.
Sure, but this exception proves the point. There are indeed electronic voting machines widely considered to be suspect. So the notion that electronic voting machines could potentially be used to commit fraud in this election is not out of the question.
You just described distributed databases -- which are overwhelmingly now deciding to use SQL as their interface of choice. You're completely hand waving over the fact that data is just a bunch of bits on disk grouped into pages. Everything above that fact is a tradeoff.
Please do research on myopia progression. It's not unknown. This entire thread is full of people guessing at things they don't have any experience in.
It seems quite naive to think that if the cases had made it to trial and lost that the “stop the steal” crowd would be satisfied.

The issue is that their leaders are more than happy to just lie to them constantly, reality be damned. And they don’t know, or they don’t care that they’re being lied to.
>>> https://element.io/
No kidding, this is HN lol people talk about taking drugs to slow aging, building recycled battery packs, open-source sex toys and a lot of other marginal topics. That's why most people actually like this community.

People are adult, if a simple comment makes you YOLO your life savings on options you probably had a lot of issues to begin with.
It is definitely everyone involved, and having this memo out there means engineers can point towards it when working on a feature that could reduce privacy and try and shift direction slightly.
Yes, I'm sure.
Pennhurst and Bridgewater State Hospitals and the resulting exposes on these facilities were the start of the abandonment of most state run mental health services and facilities.

Search for "Suffer the Children" from 1968, by NBC10.
added: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YG33HvIKOgQ&feature=emb_logo

added: Also search "Titicut Follies" for temporal context

Those calls to action lead to defunding and closing of many facilities on mass regardless of the services they provided or the conditions. From orphanages up to mental health institutions.

That period was followed up by a small influential group of individuals that lobbied very hard to have state schools for the handicapped and severe development delays closed in preference of services provided by local schools culminating in Title 1, which was eventually federally mandated regardless of the level of care and support a child might need.

Both of these large changes led to significant changes in the cultural acceptance of institutionalization of any individual young or old, even to the detriment of those individuals in some cases.
South African Revenue Service requires a custom flash-enabled browser
why doesn't anyone want to prove Biden won

When someone asserts "voter fraud" they are making the accusation that a crime was committed. It is not the obligation of the accused to prove their innocence, it is the obligation of other parties to prove guilt.

So you're looking at it the wrong way. The election, with all its established safeguards, is assumed "innocent" unless accusations of guilt (fraud) are proven. No significant accusations have stood up under scrutiny. The presumption of innocence stands.
Reliably might be a key word there.

The cost of the batteries is probably not a large component of the overall project cost which includes permitting, insurance, substation, inverters, labour, transportation of all of the above equipment. So to then cheap out and buy batteries that have half the life or half the density and probably greater risk of failure, Fire, higher insurance costs is not something I see people managing 50-150 million dollar projects sticking their neck
Out to do to maybe save 10%? But then have lower reliability, more maintenance, and a complete replacement
Of all the batteries coming in half the time as it would be with new ones.
>The same way USPS doesn’t go around opening letters and getting rid of whatever they don’t like.

Bad news...
Can’t upvote this enough. HN has turned to shambles over the years as people here are way more concerned with “getting out” than they are with building companies. It’s not surprising the place is a cesspool of jealousy whenever someone succeeds.

I’ve called them out on this shit years ago. It still hasn’t changed.
You're not the only one. There are lots of better alternatives to SQL databases for most use cases (I'm lucky enough to have worked in some places where SQL datastores were the exception rather than the rule). But it takes a long time for cultural change to happen.
Oh my word, that article on tarsnap is a frightful bore. I was a tarsnap customer and I thought it was great. If Colin is happy running it more like a utility than a rapacious VC-backed hyper-growth racket, I'm not sure why that is bad.

The only reason I stopped being a customer was because another rapacious racket of a business, Comcast, introduced miniscule but enforced data caps in my area, so online backups aren't attractive anymore and I've gone back to external drives and offsite rotation. When I cancelled, Colin sent me a personal e-mail to make sure it was alright to delete my backups. It was probably the best exchange I've ever had with a service provider.
Stuck at home for Covid and was looking for projects to make my home network better. Sold my Ubiquiti security appliance and put an Opnsense router in its place. Aside from services that aren’t well documented, I’ve been able to set it up enough that I’d consider dumping my Cisco equipment in the office in favor of this as our firewall.

I looked at pfsense and got a weird vibe from their site.
There absolutely are mitigations from a technical standpoint, some with privacy trade-offs and some with UI trade-offs. But the key is to have those mitigations in place before you launch a feature with potential attack vectors.

Moxie's statement in that article claims they have no plans to address it.
First time I'm hearing about it. According to Wikipedia the show is well loved but just didn't get much viewership.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halt_and_Catch_Fire_(TV_series...
To be fair on those 68% who "don't care" they can't tell if they are using something that cares about their privacy or not.

Imagine two options of (1) an organisation who claims to do the right things and (2) an organisation who makes no claims. Picking either option could be a rational response for someone who cares about privacy. Any strategy has to account for the existence of liers/incompetents who claim to do something then don't.

To make privacy conscious decisions requires monitoring many information channels and having a nuanced understanding of the history and motivations of the people involved. That is too hard to do for most rational people. They need clearer support outlining what they are meant to be doing than what they get.
This is a good point, but I’m thinking a higher return will be earned with new batteries than used ones. I guess we’ll see in 10 years If there are utility scale grid storage with used batteries!
I’ve had only positive experiences with Linode, including incidents where I faced absolutely massive DDoS attacks.

On the other hand, my account is suspended from DigitalOcean, I have multiple droplets they refuse to give the data to, and they even had the audacity to keep billing me until I did credit card chargebacks. I still have no idea why I was banned.

Maybe because I used the GitHub student pack promo but I had already finished uni? I don’t know.
it’s safer than just holding stock which is what 99% of people do...so how is that more exposure than your average long retirement account?
I would sign it in a heartbeat. The surfing experience has been really degraded.
Many of the machines, if not most, had paper ballot backups in addition to the electronic counts. When audited, the paper counts matched the machine counts.

So the issue isn't "electronic voting" vs. "paper ballots".
I don't think it is quite that high. Maybe on the order of 20 Gb/s.

> Each satellite in the SpaceX System provides aggregate downlink capacity to users ranging from 17 to 23 Gbps, depending on the gain of the user terminal involved. Assuming an average of 20 Gbps, the 1600 satellites in the Initial Deployment would have a total aggregate capacity of 32 Tbps.

https://fcc.report/IBFS/SAT-LOA-20161115-00118/1158349

They have a couple of GHz of bandwidth on the satellites for each of the user downlinks/ground station uplinks, and maybe a GHz for the user uplinks/ground station downlinks, operating in the Ku (12-18 GHz) and Ku (27-40 GHz) bands (requested frequencies on page 8 of the linked paper.)